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Picture This: George Paton
George Paton c1855 (Courtesy of John Paton) One of the fascinating, and at times frustrating, things about working at the Dictionary is that we receive so much content that it just isn't possible to publish everything that comes our way. But…
History Week
History Council of NSW presents History Week, 7 – 15 September 2013 Bringing the past into view through the frame of images History Week kicked off on the weekend with a host of great events. This year's theme, Picture This, looks at how…
The Yellow House
The Yellow House Pop Up Gallery is at David Jones from 8-15 September for History Week 2013 Today on 2SER breakfast I chatted with Tim about the Yellow House, an artist's collective and hang-out that emerged in Kings Cross in the…
Scandalous Nights: Sydney's Artists' balls
Souvenir of the Third Annual Artists' Masquerade Ball : Sydney Town Hall, August 29 1924, courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, ML Q793.3809944/1A This week on 2SER breakfast with Tim Higgins, Dictionary Chair Lisa Murray talked about Sydney's bohemian artists'…
Booralee fishing village
Botany fishermen and their boats, moored near the mouth of the Cooks River January 1938. Contributed by City of Botany Bay Library and Museum Services (L-R: Mr William 'Trappie' Duncan (84), Jim 'Snider' Thompson (82), Harry Jones (71) and James…
Cooks River favourites
Steel Park River Patrol Lifesaving Club, 1932. (courtesy Marrickville Library and History Services) Last week on 2SER we celebrated the launch of the Cooks River project. We've been blogging and tweeting about this great project since its launch two weeks ago.…
Inside History Expert Q&A with the Dictionary Chair, Lisa Murray
Sketch and description of the settlement at Sydney Cove Port Jackson in the County of Cumberland...16th of April, 1788, by Francis Fowkes, courtesy National Library of Australia nla.map-nk276 We hope you have your questions about Sydney ready for our Chair, Lisa…
‘Fine stream', 'fine meadow' – launching the Cooks River Project
The Cooks River Sydney c1858-1862, showing the dam across the river at Tempe, courtesy State Library of Victoria Acc No: H83.50/8 It is with great pleasure that we launch our ‘Fine stream, fine meadow’ Cooks River project. Made possible through a…
Australia's first female electrical engineer
Florence Violet McKenzie (courtesy of the Ex-Wrans Association of NSW) It's Biography Week at the State Library of NSW and so today on 2SER Breakfast with Tim Higgins we delved into the Dictionary to reveal the extraordinary life of Florence Violet McKenzie, Australia's first…
Koori Radio 20 years Live and Deadly
Trevor Dodd - Koori Radio 93.7FM presenter. (Courtesy of Gadigal Inforamtion Service Archive) Koori Radio has been going strong for 20 years, broadcasting the news and views of Aboriginal Australia from its home in Redfern. In this week's slot on 2SER…